TPR is a new type of digital transparency (and data control) reporting, pioneered in by the same people and organisation that specified Notice and Consent Receipts at the Kantara Initiative. Which is an amazing invention for decentralising data governance, security and privacy in data flows.
The first Transparency Performance Report, is focused on determining if consent is valid, secure, sovereign and accountable. This follow up from the same people the consent receipt specification, for comment, Standard transparency over data sovereignty and the validity of consent with the use of digital identification systems.
“ Transparency reporting, is a revolution in digital governance, while we have had the standad for a consent receipt since 2014, standard transparency over whether consent is valid is required to use consent for international data transfers. Transaprency reporting is required to scale meaningful consent, which means transparency reporting is not just another compliance tool. “
says Mark Lizar, Editor of the ANCR v1. Transparency Performance Valid Consent Report. The ANCR TPR, just posted Feb 14 for public review by the Kantara Initiative Community.
The ANCR transparency and consent work has quite the 'bottom up' history as the Notice and Consent Receipt that was brought to Kantara in 2013, by the Open Notice Initiative, and before the Identity Commons in California. The initiative was launched to created the standards required to address “the Biggest Lie on the Internet” a campaign against terms and conditions in support of do no track. Transparency performance reporting, makes it clear to everyone, when a notice and consent receipt is required.
The Notice and Consent Receipt v1. specification as been very successful, as it was eventually drafted in conjunction with SO/IEC Online privacy notice and consent standard (29814). Known as the JTC 1, SC 27, WG 5, that is the international standards group focused on privacy and identity management. Through participation with the Kantara Initiative, this project which started originally at Identity Commons, made it all the way to the international commons. The Notice and Consent receipt schema, has now itself become an ISO/IEC technical standard, currently called 27560 Consent recored information structure.
The ANCR specification for Transparency Reporting introduce four transparency performance indicators (TPI’s) that are used to assess if consent for digital identification management is valid. .
This TPR report, in development for 3 years in the ANCR workgroup is a significant development towards addressing big-tech surveillance, tracking, and promotes the glass-box Commonwealth security and privacy legal standards.
The timing of this announcement is significant, in 2025, the ratification of the international Commonwealth treaty, Convention 108+, effectively creates the only global rules set for security and privacy, that is rights, law, and Commons based. The only foundation suitable to a common set of rules for people to use, to hold services account to international (internet) standard for data governance.